What Are Thoughts Quotes

#1. What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?

Dinty W. Moore

#2. One is never truly alone, even when our only company is our thoughts, because what are thoughts if not the memory of interactions with others?

Laura Esquivel

#3. We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, sins, doubts, and deepest despair, replay poignant memories of loved ones, project what we are becoming, and ascertain the purpose of our being.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#4. He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.

John Ruskin

#5. Walking a mile in someone else's shoes isn't as much about the walk or the shoes; it's to be able to think like they think, feel what they feel, and understand why they are who and where they are. Every step is about empathy.

Toni Sorenson

#6. I spend all my time trying to keep thoughts away and ignore them ... But here you are, trying to remember your own life, writing your thoughts down so that you don't forget. I suddenly realized what it would be like not to know, not to remember.

Michael Scott

#7. There are so many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and proasic with the poison of life.

H.P. Lovecraft

#8. For me, it's important that I experience and feel what the characters are feeling. So I put myself in those moments, in their thoughts, and let it happen naturally. I write what I feel.

Chevy Stevens

#9. Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or property, but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts
that and nothing more.

Willa Cather

#10. We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.'- Buddha

Elias Axmar

#11. What a great advantage a man can have over women, if he only knew what cold and calculating thoughts are going through her mind ... while her eyes are brimming with tears.

Esther Vilar

#12. Iron can only be destroyed by rust, and rust is a slow process which is caused by the hydrogen ion from water in the environment. Coat yourself against negative thoughts and be careful what you feed your mind because your mind is your greatest asset, make sure you are not using it against yourself.

Uzoma Nnadi

#13. What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.

Garson Kanin

#15. They're making us think our thoughts are what we're thinking...I think.-Patrick Star

Stephen Hillenburg

#16. Forgiveness is healing - everything is energy - thoughts create - we are all connected - what you resist persists - true love never dies - the soul's immortality is the only true immortality -

Alyson Noel

#17. Tomorrow when you wake up, be aware of how you dress your thoughts and emotions, because at the end of the day no matter what you look like, if your inner being isn't beautiful, neither are you.

Nikki Rowe

#18. You are not what you think you are, but WHAT YOU THINK, the thoughts that habitually possess your mind, that is what you are

Claude M. Bristol

#19. Never Forget what someone says to you when they are drunk. Because Drunk words are Sober Thoughts

Wiz Khalifa

#20. A poem often begins in the midst of wonderful wandering thoughts that are eager to open wings to fly in the beautiful blue sky of imagination.

Debasish Mridha

#21. When a decision like that is made by a government, it emboldens those who are already prejudiced to speak their deepest thoughts of hate. They assume they are simply brave enough to say what everyone really thinks.

Cassandra Clare

#22. The Bleach You are your hair and your eyes and your thoughts. You are what you look at and what you feel and what you do about it. The light from the sun is still a part of the sun. My thoughts of you are as real as any part of you.

Pleasefindthis

#23. We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. Buddha

Bohdi Sanders

#24. the Buddha pointed out correctly 2500 years ago, what we are is the result of our thoughts. Some have said we are the result of our experiences, but I would add that we are the result of what we think about our experiences.

Jackson Peterson

#25. You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts.

Jack Canfield

#26. Distance may be the segregator but our thoughts and dreams are what keep us together.

Truth Devour

#27. Those who reason most powerfully and are the most successful at ordering their thoughts so as to make them clear and intelligible will always be best able to persuade others of what they say, even if they speak in the thickest of dialects

Rene Descartes

#28. When we are overly concerned with what people think we will be controlled by the thoughts and opinions of other people.

Joyce Meyer

#29. Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person human. Without writing, we just wouldn't have that kind of access.

Carol Windley

#30. Change your life experiences through the thoughts you think.
Practice thinking good thoughts and your life will reflect what you are thinking.
We have the blessing of choice.

Valerie Kerr

#31. But if you fake any trait long enough it becomes an essential part of you, like your fingerprint. So there's no point telling yourself not to be scared. You can't control your thoughts and emotions. But you can control your actions. In the end, we are the sum of what we do.

Adam Baker

#32. What are we to do when we seem to grow out of God? Or at least the understanding of God that we grew up with?

Brandan Roberston

#33. We are learning to perceive existence in separate phases. One phase is to see that we are not our thoughts. As you sit, try and feel what is beyond thought - sense that you are separate from thought.

Frederick Lenz

#34. It's just how it is. What's wrong with talking about it? Mum said if women don't learn to self-orgasm at your stage of development, they can miss out on a whole world of pleasure further down the track. There's nothing to be ashamed or guilty about, if you are healthy in your thoughts about it.

Rachael Treasure

#35. I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts.

George Chapman

#36. Things will happen that you can't prevent, things will fall apart that you can't hold together, but ultimately you're shaping yourself and that final product speaks volumes about who you really are, not what people see you as or what you want to be.

Erik Tomblin

#37. So often I wonder whether it is my right to capitalize, as I feel, so often, on the grief of others. But then I justify, in my own particular thoughts, by feeling that I can contribute a little to the understanding of what others are going through; then there is reason for doing it.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#38. It is striking how our language reveals the visual nature of our thoughts about the future state of affairs. When we invent the future, we try to get a mental picture of what things will be like long before we have begun the journey. Visions are our windows on the world of tomorrow.

James M. Kouzes

#39. Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?

Amy Chua

#40. No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The part of who you are that is left behind within these old ideas is what makes them original all over again.

Ashly Lorenzana

#41. You are today the result of your thoughts of yesterday, and the many yesterdays preceeding it. You are forming today the mold for what you will be in the years to come.

Robert Collier

#42. It's not that the people are bad but it's the situation which ruins the thoughts of the people. The situation where we forget what's right and what's wrong ... that's the moment where we do wrong which we realize long later ...

Debolina Bhawal

#43. Books can be dangerous. You never know when they're going to blow up, and what they'll take out when they do. Why do you think dictators are so fond of burning them? One idea can lead to another, and then before you know it, people are going crazy having thoughts and opinions and stuff.

Amanda Weaver

#44. We are not trapped by our thoughts. What we generally do, however, is create thoughts that trap us." (p.162)

Joshua David Stone

#45. What does infinity mean to you?
Are you not infinity and yourself?

Dejan Stojanovic

#46. Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.

Sigmar Polke

#47. What are all the thoughts rattling in your mind when you're not listening to the answers to questions you ask?
-Jo, Boom

Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

#48. Think about what you are thinking about. Be aware of your own thoughts!

Toni Sorenson

#49. Look back at life. Far more than what people did to influence your Life , it is your Actions , Your Convictions, and your Thoughts that has got you where you are.

R.v.m.

#50. I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you're responsible for your thoughts. Whereas actually - the way I see it - your thoughts are what the wind blows through your mind.

Thom Yorke

#51. What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and feelings are worth uttering.

Judith Martin

#52. I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do.

Anita Shreve

#53. Words, I've come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted hearts. Without words, we're history's orphans. Our lives and thoughts erased

Alena Graedon

#54. You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.

Robert Frank

#55. Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel.
Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel brain" are given over to one thought: food.
The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: I wonder what there is to eat.

Kate DiCamillo

#56. Don't become mesmerize by the pictures that have appeared if they are not what you want. Take responsibility for them, make light of them if you can, and let them go. Then think new thoughts of what you want, feel them, and be grateful that it is done.

Rhonda Byrne

#57. For though our eyes, in what direction soever they turn, are forced to behold the works of God, we see how fleeting our attention is, and holy quickly pious thoughts, if any arise, vanish away.

John Calvin

#58. Hence reason also demands that, since our thoughts cannot all be true because we are not wholly perfect, what truth they do possess must inevitably be found in the thoughts we have when awake, rather than in our dreams.

Rene Descartes

#59. Our vibration depends upon what we are thinking, feeling and acting. You have two choices, one is to flow with the chaotic frequencies of the world and feel hopeless, or decide what and how you want to feel.

Hina Hashmi

#60. I find myself often moved to tears by what is being written in front of me. Sometimes, I just sit on the couch and write the words down and cry because the beauty of the thoughts and how exquisitely they are being expressed.

Neale Donald Walsch

#61. Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin.

John Donne

#62. The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way.

Heraclitus

#63. We allow ourselves to be blown by the winds because we do know what we want: our hearts know it, even if our thoughts are sometimes slow to follow- but in the end they do catch up with our hearts and then we think we have made a decision

Muhammad Asad

#64. Along those lines, accept any and all thoughts (don't be afraid of them no matter what they are).

Jennifer Niven

#65. In order to know how to talk, you have to know what to say. In order to know what to say, you have to get in touch with those deep-inside-of-you thoughts, feelings, needs, and yearnings. These are the parts of you that must be communicated if you are going to be known.

Neil Clark Warren

#66. Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us.

John Middleton Murry Jr.

#67. Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe

Gautama Buddha

#68. Thoughts of your mind have made you what you are and thoughts of your mind will make you what you become from this day forward.

Catherine Ponder

#69. Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - NOW is the time to change them. You can begin right were you are right now. Nothing matters but this moment and what you are focusing your attention on.

Rhonda Byrne

#70. I have these thoughts. I think "What if the show doesn't sell well? What if it's a half-empty room?" These are the paranoia thoughts that go through my head on a day-by-day basis.

Ladyhawke

#71. Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.

Henry Ward Beecher

#72. Are you an artist?"
"I'm a mess is what I am," he says, holding on to the building for support. "A bloody mess. You 're the artist, mate." Then he's gone.

Jandy Nelson

#73. Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

George MacDonald

#74. I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#75. Negative thoughts and emotions are what obstruct our most basic aspiration - to be happy and to avoid suffering. When we act under their influence, we become oblivious to the impact our actions have on others: they are thus the cause of our destructive behavior both toward others and to ourselves.

Dalai Lama XIV

#76. My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel;
I know not where I am nor what I do.

William Shakespeare

#77. The angels are a strange genus, they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are themselves soul-less beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord.

Carl Jung

#78. You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

William Congreve

#79. I believe that your own thoughts can bring on positive or negative effects. So the people who feel sick all the time are the ones who are going to get sick, and the people who are constantly worried about what's going on around them ... those are the ones in trouble.

Maria Conchita Alonso

#80. Thoughts are more alive than you are. Without thoughts, are you there?

Debasish Mridha

#81. She says I think too many sad thoughts, and that if I keep it up, who knows what will happen. Donna doesn't know everything I know. I can't help but think sad thoughts sometimes. Sometimes they are the closest things on my mind.

Jennifer Lynch

#82. Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings - that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.

P.D. Ouspensky

#83. Your thoughts are building your future reality; the question is what are you thinking today?

Steven Aitchison

#84. Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.

Frederick Lenz

#85. Be very mindful of what and where your consciousness goes and how you are thinking at all times. It may be better to proactively place positive thoughts in your consciousness rather than pick up random, unwanted negative thoughts from your environment.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#86. The trenches are all filled in, but the boys are still dying.'
Then I could read her thoughts and I knew what this day meant. Mrs. Abernathy's son could have been my dad.

Richard Peck

#87. Stories are a way to connect with others and realize we're not alone in our crazy, mixed-up thoughts. I think what you do is important. It keeps introverted people like me from going insane.

Linda Kage

#88. Thoughts are free, talk is cheap, and action is expensive. What's your worth?

Noel DeJesus

#89. Thoughts are one of the most creative powers we have as human beings. If you hold the mantra in your mind that you are continually becoming more healthful and radiant, that is what you will become.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#90. We can bring into being, the things we dream. So much of what we are is, limited or expanded by, what we think.

Jaeda DeWalt

#91. Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life."
"I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.

Jane Austen

#92. Because all I could think about was you, Anna, and how good you are, and what you'd think of me. You put thoughts into my head a Neph shouldn't have!

Wendy Higgins

#93. I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.

Mos Def

#94. Even though there are so many teachings, so many meditations, so many instructions, the basic point of it all is just to learn to be extremely honest and also wholehearted about what exists in your mind - thoughts, emotions bodily sensations, the whole thing that adds up to what we call "me" or "I".

Pema Chodron

#95. I haven't been able to think straight since I met you. I can't think of a day when you haven;t been in my thoughts. There are a hundred other things I should be thinking about, but I think about you. What you're doing, when I'll see you next, what you're thinking.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#96. You have to try to imagine an ideal reader, who's neither stupid nor able to know what your thoughts are.

John Ashbery

#97. Prayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking. When you pray, think well what you are saying, and make your thoughts into things that are solid. In that manner, your prayer will have strength, and that strength shall become part of you, mind, body, and spirit.

Richard Llewellyn

#98. By exposing the hidden dream-thoughts, we have confirmed in general that the dream does continue the motivation and interests of waking life, for dream-thoughts are engaged only with what seems to be important and of great interest to us.

Sigmund Freud

#99. When you are saying you want to feel good, what you really are saying is you want to feel God: I want my thoughts to be the same as the source from which I emanated.

Wayne Dyer

#100. He threw his cigar away and looked up at the outstretched Galaxy. "Back to oil and coal, are they?" he murmured - and what the rest of his thoughts were he kept to himself.

Isaac Asimov